I just made the dead line. This is turkey kielbasa with peppers,onions and tomato sauce. It was very tasty. I had mine with no bread. You have to look hard to see the kielbasa.

Crab Cakes, er, Sandwiches...

These are exactly what they look like: giant crab cakes on sandwiches. We use canned crab meat to make our crab cakes, and we put them on Asiago cheese rolls with lettuce, tomato, and red onion. We also made a quick mayo-hot sauce spread with which we dressed the buns. Yum!

Tortas Mexicanas

Ordering a sandwich in Mexico will probably get you either a hamburger or a burrito, but they do have a sandwich all their own—the torta. A torta is basically a sandwich with Mexican-style toppings. One staple in the Mexican kitchen is the bolillo (bo-LEE-o), a crusty roll that usually comes either in a fist-sized or head-sized variety. Most people pick up a few at the bakery in the morning and use them at some point throughout the day. The torta is one use. Despite the commonality of bolillos, however, there were none to be found in Mexican stores in the Akron-area, so we found a recipe and made our own. For toppings we had a light spread of refried beans, shredded cheese, TVP fashioned into taco meat, a red onion and cilantro preparation, sliced tomatoes, black olives, avocados, and lettuce. We each also used Chipotle-style Tabasco sauce to taste. After piling it all on, the sandwiches were a bit tall, like this:



Still, once it was all squished together (see below), it was ready to eat, and eat them we did. They are highly recommended.

Yay! I can post again!!

I'm not big into lunch food and I stand by the idea that breakfast foods ought to be the first meal of the day even if it's not technically morning... This is my favorite sandwich for that reason, and it's super healthy :)

The ingredients: toast, butter, peanut butter, bananas, honey, shredded carrots, golden raisins and honey. Yum!!

Sandwich 4

Sourdough bread, spinach, cucumber, tomato, guacamole (avocado, cilantro, red onion, lime juice, dash of salt and pepper)
This sandwich was great! I'm going to have it for lunch everyday until I run out of ingredients. I might also have it for breakfast!

Tofurky-Dill Sandwich

Here's another sandwich made in our household recently. It's sliced tofurky on the onion-dill buns we got at Jungle Jim's with Vegenaise, dill Havarti cheese, tomato, Jungle Jim's dill pickles, red onion, and lettuce. Yum!

Sandwich 3

Chicken Salad Sandwich - Chicken, grapes, celery, red onion, mayo, marjoram

I may have put this on my other blog at some point but this is my favorite chicken salad recipe so I had to make it for this anyway!

Sandwich 2

Satay-Spiced Peanut Butter Sandwich - Peanut butter, lime juice, ginger, soy sauce, red onion, cilantro. This actually wasn't that bad (Owen even liked it!) but I won't make it again simply because the effort didn't equal the tastiness. I didn't add the bean sprouts and I used Pam instead of butter in the frying pan.
*I would also like to note that (if you didn't already know) I can't eat any dairy for the time being and cheese really makes the sandwich so there are a bunch of good sandwiches I was looking forward to that won't quite live up to their potential without the cheese!

Insalata Caprese—On a Sandwich

It's no secret that we like Insalata Caprese, to which this post can attest. So, we've put it on a sandwich. It isn't the first time. The bread is a bun-sized version of Jungle Jim's Asiago cheese bread. Actually, Lisa used the same thing, but in a dill-onion flavor. Both of us had fresh Jungle Jim's mozzarella (the best we've had), tomato, basil (fresh from our plant!), red onion, and Gia Russa Balsamic Glaze. Lisa also used Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise. These were quite good, and there'll be lots more sandwiches to come. Check out some other views below.



Side-view.



Cross-section.

Sandwich 1

Toasted everything bagel, fake bacon, onion, roasted red pepper, turkey, lettuce

This sandwich is dedicated to Owen who suggested adding the bacon and insisted on buying a red pepper last time we were at the store (which I then roasted yesterday because it was in the fridge for awhile...). It really was better with the bacon, Owen was right. I have some crazier sandwiches on my list to make but I thought I would start out with something that wasn't too risky:)

June

Having a 2 month old means I'm awake at 3am on June 1 and get to announce what we're doing for June! SANDWICHES!